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One thing in all of your Hate-Stallings articles you seem to omit is. It wasn't him that brought up the UK scheduling advantage to begin with. He was asked to comment on it. Add to that this is a Quote from him. "It's not Kentucky's fault," Stallings said. "They're going to do what we're doing; they're going to play their games when they're scheduled. So it's not a Kentucky issue. It's an issue with the league office, and I understand that television dictates certain things, and that's fine. But in stead of pointing those facts out it's easier to call him a whinner. Donovan is saying the same things after being asked to comment on it yet he gets a Big "pass".
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* Coach says X.
* Media members ask local coaches about X.
* Some local coaches — not all, but some — discuss X.
* Media members now have a column topic for days on end… good ol' Topic X.
That's what's happening now with complaints about the SEC's basketball schedule. Kevin Stallings got the ball rolling, pointing out that Kentucky is not having to play a Thursday-Saturday turnaround for the second year in a row.
Billy Donovan then said that some teams like Alabama — coached by his old friend Anthony Grant — are at a disadvantage having to play on a Thursday night and then early on a Saturday. (Agreed.)
For his part, Grant simply said, "It is what it is." But Mississippi State's Rick Stansbury also says the league needs to make the schedule balanced for everyone. "You all research where Kentucky's at," he said. (Auburn and LSU also avoided Thursday-Saturday matchups this year, but no one seems to mention them.)
On the media front, columnist Kevin Scarbinsky of The Birmingham News — one of the SEC's top scribes, by the way — went so far as to say that the current set up "is patently unfair."
As for the fans, well, many fans are always up for a good conspiracy theory and if it's possible in any way — right or wrong — to say that their team is getting screwed, they'll say it.
So the SEC office is under fire. A better schedule, equal to all must be created!
A good goal, no doubt. But an impossible one to reach. There are 12 teams — soon to be 14 — having to play 16 games — soon to be 18 — over the course of nine weeks. That's tricky enough. But ESPN is also paying the league $155 million a year to get top-flight games and top-flight games usually involve Kentucky.
So just as there are more Alabama, Florida and LSU football games at 3:30 on Saturdays (which leaves the Kentuckys, Mississippis and Vanderbilts to play at 11am in syndication, at 9pm on ESPNU, or on Thursdays), in basketball there will be more Tuesday and Saturday night games featuring UK.
I'm not saying it's right. Don't put words in my mouth. I'm just not a fan of whining over things that will never be viewed as being fair to all. In a nine-week schedule, for example, it would be awfully difficult to line up all 14 teams for Thursday-Saturday games. Someone will always complain.
A "fair" schedule is a myth. Fairer? Okay, go for it. Here's hoping that the league can come up with a plan that makes all coaches happy (good luck) and ESPN happy as well.
But if that's going to happen, it won't occur during the current basketball season. Mike Slive isn't going to start shuffling game dates on January 25th. To bark, bitch and moan now is to waste energy and to shine a bad light on the league itself.
A better option? Slive might want to contact the league's presidents and have them encourage their coaches to pipe down on the "what about Kentucky?" talk until the SEC convenes its spring meetings in Destin. The coaches will be there. The ADs will be there. The commissioner and the schedule-makers will be there. Save the airing of grievances for Destin (or Festivus).
At that point, everyone's voice can be heard and the media — folks like me — won't be around to rant and rave that School X is getting jobbed… which only leads some fans to believe the whole league is somehow against their favorite school. (And trust me, dealing with all 12 schools, I know that fans of all 12 truly believe Slive and the SEC have it in for them and them alone.)
In 2009, Slive had to start tossing out fines to coaches who fired barbs at one another or at the conference's officials. (That's standard operating procedure in most conferences and pro leagues.) Perhaps it's time he put forth the same kind of edict regarding schedule moans.
If the commissioner doesn't do that, then we're probably going to continue to hear this topic right on up through March. When there's absolutely nothing that can be done about it before the SEC Meetings anyway.
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Peninsula had a chance to win it at the end of the first overtime. Tied 51-51 with 16.4 seconds left, Seahawks head coach Steve Jacobson called a timeout. The team fluttered out of the break and didn't get a clean look at the basket.
"We got a shot, but it wasn't the one we wanted," said Jacobson, who added fan noise may have affected the play.
"We called timeout, and we had to draw something up for man and for zone, because you always have to assume that, during a timeout situation late in the game, they're going to switch something up just to throw you off your rhythm," he said. "It was loud, and I just think one of the people didn't hear the right call, so we were just kind of waiting to throw the ball to that person, and they weren't where they were supposed to be, so then we dumped it in."
Peninsula had forced overtime after it tied the game at 49-49 to end regulation.
The Seahawks' struggles in the third quarter and in the second OT came as they attempted to defend the 3-point line. Auburn Mountainview (14-4, 7-1), dangerous from the perimeter, can bury teams when it gets hot, Jacobsen said.
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Peninsula packed the key and held DePiano to five points, but she created some open looks for her teammates. Four different Lions players finished with double-digit points.
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Over the holiday break, I spent some time in my hometown. Of course, we did the usual family dinners, catch-ups with friends and all kinds of wassailing. As anybody from a suburb will tell you, activities can become boring very quickly and you're left with the inevitable choice of going to the movies or going to the mall. Over the holidays, you're more than likely to do both, as I did. While walking through the mall I realized something-something that may have eluded my New York City snob heart: The mall is the greatest place on earth. Why? I'll tell you.
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Your youth: Like a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, the first time your parents let you run free in the mall with your friends is a major rite of passage in a young person's life. You may only get an hour and $20 to spend, but in that moment, I swear you were infinite.
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Gardens and stuff: Tired of being indoors? Fancy malls have gardens in them, so get your nature fix. No garden? Try the endless amount of randomly placed fountains. No fountain? Then it's time to take in some of that fine commercial art. Who says you can't have culture while you shop?
Pretzels in department stores: Because nothing says luxury quite like eating cinnamon sugar pretzel bites while trying on coats made of exotic animals.
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I totally agree with the idea that record may stick in some voters minds, but I have to think that Sapp has far, far more negatives that would get him eliminated first.
So at least in this vote, I eliminate it as a factor.,
I believe that Sapp has a fairly unique factor: ask 100 people that know the phrase "3 technique" who had the biggest impact on the position, most will say Sapp.
Ask the same 100 about the DE position, and...well, I loved the guy, but he ain't gonna be considered THE GUY by many.
On the very same day in early 2014 when the Giants sign Eli to an extension, GmenNFCBeasts will be featured in the first story on the nightly news.
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Coexistence on the train tracks in Jerusalem?
Last weekend, when the weather was still unseasonably warm, we took an extended walk on the new Train Track Park in Jerusalem. The Park is a stunning achievement – an urban redevelopment project transforming the formerly weed and garbage strewn train tracks that dead ended at the abandoned old train station in Jerusalem's Germany Colony into a 7 km long family friendly mixed use park, ideal for casual strollers, bikers, joggers, kids and dogs of all ages.
The new park, which has been compared with Manhattan's re-imagined High Line Park, which was also built on the site of an out-of-use railway, has been beautifully landscaped; there are benches, water fountains, already flourishing trees, and separate marked paths (this being Israel, usually ignored) for walking and bike riding. There are even plastic bag stations to encourage canine cleanliness. In the summer on a warm Shabbat afternoon, the Park is so crowded it can be hard to saunter at a reasonable clip.
And come spring, the Park stands to become even more popular, when the old train station re-opens as an eating/entertainment/shopping complex.
The Train Track Park has the potential to serve another function: coexistence. As the park winds its way through the German Colony, Baka and the Katamonim in southern Jerusalem, it eventually reaches the Arab village of Beit Safafa. That section was recently completed and we directed our weekend walk that way for the first time.
I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. Would the character of the Park change once we crossed the line (delineated in grand fashion by a busy vehicular bridge above)? Would the Park be less well developed and kept up on the "other" side? Would the different communities use opposite sides of the tracks?
To its credit, there has been absolutely no discrimination on the part of the city planners when building the park – the same attention to detail seen in Baka has been given to Beit Safafa, from signage to shrubbery. At the entrance to the neighborhood there is a gorgeous soccer field, impeccably maintained and well lit (there's no financial or planning connection to the Park). If not for the sounds of the muezzin from the next-door mosque, it would not be out of place in Ramat Aviv.
There were plenty of Jewish walkers in the Beit Safafa section, although there wasn't a lot of interaction going on – the locals were mainly kids on bikes and the kind of surly teenagers you find anywhere. We seemed to attract the most attention with our white Maltese puppy in tow.
On our return to the Katamonim section of the Park, we passed two Arab women in full head covering out for a power walk, as well as a couple of Arab men walking their own dogs.
Does this signify a hopeful trend for concurrence? Ilene Prusher wrote about her own stroll on the Train Track Park through Beit Safafa this week on Haaretz, saying that she was
…filled with a sense that there are some beautiful things happening in Jerusalem. Thanks to the track, people from Beit Safafa and Baka are crossing paths, and not just at the mall.
What exactly this means remains to be seen, she added. But coexistence has to start somewhere. And a park that straddles two cultures with no barriers between suggests that the train may well be leaving the station.
The weather is supposed to be warmer over Shabbat. Why not check out the Train Track Park yourself and leave your comments at the end of this post.
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Not only the park and the mall, also the light rail. This is what a real city needs- lots of places for everyone.
There is a long list of examples in the public domain where all sectors of the Jerusalem public share the benefits and the pleasure. Downtown in general, Mahane Yehuda, the Zoo, clinics, hospitals, parks and many more. The secret of our city is for residents to choose a neighborhood that suits their philosophy, and to agree to share the public domain. Naomi Tsur, Deputy Mayor
"The secret of our city is for residents to choose a neighborhood that suits their philosophy, and to agree to share the public domain." A beautiful sentiment that would be well received in all cities of the world that value their residents' wellbeing.
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Toshiba is set to partner with Canon in a $2.5 billion dollar venture to produce SED TV's. The first product due in late 2006 will be a 50" model.
Toshiba is dropping all Plasma production. Instead the company is set to partner with Canon in a $2.5 billion dollar venture to produce a new generation of flat panel displays using SED technology
SED technology was first shown in 1998 as a relatively tiny 10in prototype. By comparison the first SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) TVs will go on sale in Japan in the first half of 2006 will start at 50in. SED technology produces flat panels with a unique combination of factors: large size, high resolution, low power consumption, light weight and thin profile.The SED consists of a glass plate mounted with electron emitters. Positioned next to it is another glass plate coated with a fluorescent substance. Between the two glass plates is a vacuum. Application of voltage causes the emission of electrons. Some of these electrons are accelerated by the voltage applied between the glass plates and collide with the fluorescent-coated glass plate, causing light to be emitted.
Since it is a spontaneous light display similar to a CRT, it maintains levels of brightness and colour performance, as well as a wide angle of visibility, said to be on a par with a CRT. Larger screens can also be produced by simply increasing the number of electron emitters in accordance with the required number of pixels.
Although the first screens will appear as early as 2006, mass production will not begin until 2007 when the two companies expect to produce around 75,000 units. SED will enter a crowded technological battleground. As well as the established LCD and Plasma, it will encounter OLED (organic light emitting diode, currently being developed by Samsung and Seiko Epson amongst others) and at least three different projection systems: DLP, SXRD and 3LCD.
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LINCOLN — Nebraska coach Bo Pelini wasn't sure before the season he'd like two bye weeks sandwiched into the 2013 schedule. But the youth of his defense and injuries to his whole team — including four starters on offense — changed his mind.
"It's helped prepare us for the six-week stretch that we are about to face," Pelini said at his weekly press conference.
Said wide receiver Kenny Bell: "We definitely needed these two bye weeks. They couldn't have timed up better for us."
The bye weeks are exhausted. The breaks will be relegated to Mondays, the designated day off for the Huskers.
What remains is the proving ground.
Five games against Legends Division foes, all of whom still have winning records. A sixth game at Penn State, one of the league's toughest road trips and one of NU's most physical games.
It's the same six-week stretch — against the same teams, albeit in a different order — the Huskers faced last year. Nebraska won six straight to end the regular season in 2012. Once again, a stop-and-go start to the Big Ten slate finishes in a flourish that NU players freely admit will frame their season.
"It's a six-week meat grinder," offensive tackle Jeremiah Sirles said. "No more bye weeks. No more breaks. It's gotta be one after another, boom-boom-boom-boom. It's going to define who we are as a football team. We've grown leaps and bounds from week one to where we are now, both offensively and defensively, and this next six weeks, everything's out there for us. It's anyone conference right now. We have a chance, if we run the table, to be sitting back in Indy."
That'd be Lucas Oil Stadium, site of the Big Ten Championship. Nebraska lost to Wisconsin 70-31 there last year, but not before a memorable six-game winning streak spurred on by Pelini's proclamation that NU would have to "win out" following a 63-38 loss to Ohio State.
The Huskers' lone bye week came after the Buckeye loss, and coaches and players spent much of that time off searching for answers — especially on defense — and trying to ignore critics who'd seen NU fall flat in another big game. This year finds Nebraska (5-1 overall and 2-0 in the Big Ten) with more wind in its sails because of a three-game winning streak.
NU's offense appears ready to welcome back four-year starting quarterback Taylor Martinez, and had a week to practice after losing starting guard Spencer Long. Junior Mike Moudy and sophomores Ryne Reeves and Givens Price are the top candidates to replace Long, who was an All-Big Ten and All-America player last year.
Overall, the offense was "pretty banged up," Bell said, including himself and wide receiver Quincy Enunwa among those dealing with aches and pains.
The Huskers' young defense, which has featured nine true or redshirt freshmen at some point this year, is coming off a five-sack, near-shutout performance at Purdue.
Quarterback Tommy Armstrong, who has filled in for Martinez, said he's seen the defense "get over that hump" in the last month, assisted by two bye weeks.
"The defense is getting better and better each week," he said. "They're getting to that stage where they're feeling comfortable, getting a couple stops here and there. We got a bunch of young guys, but we're getting to that stage where our defense is really helping us out some games ... our defense is starting to click at the right time."
Bell said player health and confidence is on an upturn — and they'll need both for the ups and downs of the slate ahead.
"First thing you say is: 'Strap it in tight,' " Bell said. "It's going to be a bumpy road. There's no doubt about it. When you're playing great teams every week, it's tough. Look at Northwestern."
The Wildcats were ranked in the top 20 before a 40-30 loss to Ohio State, a 35-6 loss at Wisconsin and a 20-17 loss to Minnesota, which is Nebraska's opponent this week. Bell's childhood friend, Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter, missed most of the last two games.
"The one way you get through it is the way you prepare during the week," Bell said. "You can look on Saturday and tell. Football games are won during the week. How you prepare. Look at how many upsets there were this past week."
Pelini noticed them, too.
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And while Auburn coach Gene Chizik would never shortchange an opponent, he makes it clear there will be more concentration on fixing the Tigers' assorted ills this week than on game-planning for the Owls.
"Well, I've been assessing every part of our football team," Chizik said Tuesday. "Throughout the first three weeks, offense, defense and special teams, and this is a good week to go back and looks at us and study us.
"This is about Auburn this week. I've been extremely involved in all three phases."
In truth, it's the third in a series of exhibition-type games for Florida Atlantic as well, just from a different perspective.
The Owls (0-2) opened the season by losing at Florida 41-3, followed by a 44-0 loss at Michigan State.
Florida Atlantic will likely collect a third-consecutive loss on Saturday as well as a third consecutive fat check.
FAU will collect $975,000 for playing Auburn.
The Owls won't start picking on someone their own size until they play at Louisiana Lafayette on Oct. 1 in their Sun Belt Conference opener.
"We charted these waters and have taken our lumps," said Florida Atlantic coach Howard Schnellenberger. "But that's part of the process as we get ready for the conference games.
"They know we go into this game with a very small chance of winning but they go in knowing these teams can give us a lesson in playing top of the line football.
"We don't tell them that this is a game where if they play as hard as they can, they'll have an equal opportunity to win."
For Auburn, (2-1) the most glaring deficiencies that need to be addressed lie on defense, where the Tigers rank at or near the bottom of the nation in almost all major statistical categories.
"Obviously we would love to be playing better on defense right now," Chizik said. "Again, we're going to continue to work in that direction. It's not about frustration, it's not about any of that. ... We're spending every waking moment right now assessing defense from top to bottom and figuring out a way to play better."
Chizik said poor tackling is at the root of most of the Tigers' problems.
"We are looking forward to another opportunity to play, and we're going to start back today to become a better football team," he said. 'I've had a lot of opportunities here in the last two days to really evaluate and assess some of our deficiencies."
Auburn's poor tackling was very much in evidence in last week's 38-24 loss at Clemson.
The Tigers piled up 624 yards in total offense on 92 plays with 32 first downs while going 14 of 18 on third-down conversions.
Auburn cornerback T'Sharvan Bell says watching the game film from that performance has been a bit unsettling.
"It makes you sick," he said. "To even watch it, to know that's what you put on film and that's what the outside world or anybody who cuts on our films sees, it's a sickening feeling. We're going to do everything we can on Saturday, like coach Chizik said, we have another chance Saturday to paint another picture and this time we're going to try to paint the right picture."
That starts in practice, where the Tigers will worry more about themselves than the Owls.
"It's not really about Florida Atlantic, really and truly," Chizik said. "This is a game where we've got to improve some things in practice, and go out on game day and execute the things that we feel like we need to improve on. So, it really wouldn't matter who we're playing."
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Jake Mooney February 18, 2014 at 11:00 PM
He can look forward to an Obama appointment to some post. Let's just hope it's in Chicago.
Bernard Johnson February 19, 2014 at 12:37 AM
Mel's a classic affirmative-action case of his era, neing that of the rise low-life who couldn't shake the culture of the backward little Mississippi hamlet he was born and initially raised in before coming to Chicago and wangling his way from the s/w-side up to Mather High School on the city's far north-side. Demonstative of so many of his... ilk, not least of which being his twin - Marv; these are not the sort of credentialed folks worthy of their paper credentials. Sure, he was pushed up the ladder of credentials, but, his 'moral fiber' remained in the backwaters of rural Mississippi and on the continent of his ancestors. Mel might have accumulated some parchments from some highly regarded universities, but, he never developed personal integrity. Congress was a perfect place for Mel, but, his low-life proclivities couldn't be repressed to the meager levels required of a US Congressman. Let the Dark Continent keep him, we've no use for him or his perverse ilk hereabouts.
Shif February 19, 2014 at 08:09 AM
Editor Brian. As usual how do you leave out the part that he is a democrat. The liberal press will leave out the political party if a democrat breaks the law. But if a republican does the same, you'll see his/her political party over and over through out the article. That's wrong!
Cathedral February 19, 2014 at 08:35 AM
WOW......I suspect that political affiliation has nothing to do with one's sexual proclivities........This individual, like MANY people who have different sexual desires, fantasies, fetishes, and perversions, need to control those impulses irrespective of political/religious/gender issues......Apparently, civility amongst impulse stone throwers is needed as much as those with sexual control problems....
Ajack February 19, 2014 at 09:12 AM
Yeah and he's a Democrat, a Progressive and a Creep. Funny how , like Shif just mentioned, nothing about his political affiliation or political affliction in this case.
hf2hvit February 19, 2014 at 10:02 AM
I guess all you people who are snickering because he was a Democrat have forgotten all your "family values" espousing republican adulterers: GINGRICH, LIMBAUGH, VITTER, MC CAIN, CRAIG, PALLADINO, GIULIANI, BARR, ENSIGN, TRUMP, LEE, SCHWARZENEGGER, SANFORD And all why espousing FAMILY VALUES and attempting to legislate the morals of others!!!
Shif February 19, 2014 at 10:59 AM
Just look the next article, "GOP ....." How come you liberals can't admit this?
Steven February 19, 2014 at 11:53 AM
Another win for the Party of Bill Clinton, JFK, Ted Kennedy (murderer), John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, Anthony Weiner, Barney Frank, Gerry Studds, Gary Hart, Bob Filner, David Wu, Eric Massa, Kwame Kilpatrick, David Patterson, Antonio Villaraigosa, Gary Condit (murderer), Tim Mahoney, Jim McGreevey, Brock Adams, etc. ad nauseam. The REAL Democrat War on Women goes on! But, yeah, REPUBLICANS are hypocrites -- LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Stu Pidasso February 19, 2014 at 01:17 PM
Quick question... Is this douchebag Reynolds in possession of Porn or Kiddie Porn? Were these "models" under 18 years of age? With this scumbags history, it's a pertinent question.. I still cannot believe he is a Rhodes Scholar??? Is this for real? or some kind of cruel joke?????
trueconservative February 19, 2014 at 02:23 PM
hf2hvit. But SCHWARZENEGGER ran California on the Democratic Party legislation, he did not do one thing to improve California. And, he did have relations with "THAT WOMAN", who just happened to clean his house. So glad his wife, Maria kicked him to the curb. Remember that all you leftists when Hilary runs. She doesn't even have enough self respect to get rid a a multiple cheating husband.
Cathedral February 19, 2014 at 03:13 PM
Hint to all of you righteous left and right wing dolts, you are no better than the Congressman.......
Wild Bill Cody February 19, 2014 at 03:58 PM
hf2hfit...adulterous behavior is one thing. But, child porn is the lowest of the low. And if you want to throw stones about adulterers. Former Pres. Clinton is the Grand Adulterer, with John Edwards a close second. Anthony Weiner wins 3d place easily, plus the "Weiner" prize.
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Stonyfield Farm Yogurt Cookbook
Out of the cup, and into your favorite dishes!There's more to yogurt than an energizing breakfast treat or a healthy afternoon snack. As the folks at Stonyfield Farm know, yogurt is a flexible ingredient used in cooking all over the world, one just now claiming its spot in American kitchens. With its surprising versatility, creamy texture, and piquant flavor, yogurt is a lowfat alternative...
Brainstorms: Understanding and Treating Emotional Storms of ADHD from Childhood through Adulthood
Brainstorms examines questions surrounding the possible neurobiological underpinnings of the emotionally hyperactive and hyperreactive components of ADHD and related disorders. These "pre-psychological" substrata may, for example, be fundamental to what we think of as temperament. Here is where the regulation of selective attention and the filtration of noise reside, along with...
Freeing Ourselves from Our Family of Origin: The Houdini Experience
Everyone needs to free themselves from their family of origin, and to live independently one must learn the art of escape - the Houdini experience. This book is about people who were trapped and bound, but with help, struggled to escape from their paralyzing pasts.
The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and A Fifty-Year Search
When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent of Roscrea, Co. Limerick, to be looked after as a `fallen woman' and at the age of three her baby was whisked away and `sold' to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising `Never to Seek to Know' what the Church did with him, she never saw him again. She would spend...


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Should Wayne LaPierre Clean Up After Mass Shootings? An Excerpt from Stephen King's 'Guns'
"One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal ...
"Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter, carried a Glock 19 with a mag capacity of fifteen rounds. He had nineteen clips for it. In addition, he carried a Walther P22 with a ten-shot mag. In all, he was carrying four hundred rounds of ammo. He killed thirty-two students and wounded seventeen more before killing himself.
"Dylan Klebold, one of the Columbine shooters, carried an Intratec DC9M machine-pistol, more commonly called a Tec-9. With an extended box-type magazine, the Tec-9 can fire up to fifty rounds without reloading. Harris and Klebold killed thirteen and wounded twenty-one.
"Like Seung-Hui Cho, Jared Loughner carried a Glock 19. He killed six, including a child of 9, and wounded fourteen. According to one witness to the event that seriously wounded Congressman Gabby Giffords, Loughner was able to fire so fast that the killing was over before many of the horrified onlookers realized what was happening and opened their mouths to scream.
"James Holmes, who killed twelve and wounded fifty-eight in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater, was carrying an M-16 rifle (thirty-round capacity) and a .40 caliber Glock, with a clip that can hold up to seventeen rounds.
"In addition to the Glock 10 Adam Lanza used to kill himself, he carried a Bushmaster AR-15, a light, easily handled, pistol-gripped semiautomatic rifle that can fire thirty rounds in under a minute. In his war against the first grade, Lanza fired multiple thirty-round clips.
"As for the Glock: it was pried from his cold dead hands."
-- from "Guns: A Kindle Single," by Stephen King. It's a short read, and the first half is so-so (I don't buy his argument on how America doesn't have a violent culture), but the second half makes up for it. Plus it's only 99 cents anytime.
Tags: Stephen King, NRA, gun control, Aurora Colorado, Newtown
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Because Stone Cold Said So
"I don't give a shit if two guys, two gals, guy-gal, whatever it is, I believe that any human being in America, or any human being in the goddamn world, that wants to be married, and if it's same-sex, more power to 'em.
"What also chaps my ass, some of these churches, have the high horse that they get on and say 'we as a church do not believe in that.' Which one of these motherfuckers talked to God, and God said that same-sex marriage was a no-can-do?
"OK, so two cats can't get married if they want to get married, but then a guy can go murder 14 people, molest five kids, then go to fucking prison, and accept God and He's going to let him into heaven? After the fact that he did all that shit? See that's all horseshit to me, that don't jive with me."
-- WWE wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin on his podcast a few months back.
And that's the bottom line ...
Tags: Gay Marriage, Religion
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Your Red Sox/Yankees Quote/Quiz of the Day
About which trade/signing was the following said by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner?
We understand that John Henry must be embarrassed, frustrated, and disappointed by his failure in this transaction. Unlike the Yankees, he chose not to go the extra distance for his fans in Boston.
- A) Roger Clemens
- B) Johnny Damon
- C) Jacoby Ellsbury
- D) Alex Rodriguez
Answer in the Comments field.
Tags: Yankees Suck, Boston Red Sox
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Movie Review: Under the Skin (2014)
Walking to the Harvard Exit theater last Sunday my main thought was this: "Will 'Under the Skin' be my kind of arthouse film?" Based on the trailer I saw last month, I thought not. But I knew it would be a topic of conversation this spring. I knew it would turn up on top 10 lists at the end of the year. Critics would heap praise. And they have: 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
What is my kind of arthouse film? Something with story. Something that's not mostly mood or atmosphere. Something that resonates. In recent years, my kind of arthouse film includes "No," "A Hijacking," "Footnote," and "Rust and Bone." I go for "Drive," not "Only God Forgives." I loved "The Tree of Life" and was disappointed by "To the Wonder."
"Under the Skin"? Not my kind of arthouse film.
It has moments of genuine human and extraterrestrial horror but it's mostly mood and discordant soundtrack music and different shades of incomprehensibility.
The white dot
For a brief period in college, or maybe after college, I often saw human beings as if through alien eyes. What odd creatures, I'd think. These sticks to walk on, these sticks to grab with, that circular protuberance on top. It lasted, off and on, a few years. I think I thought I was being profound.
That's the feeling throughout most of "Under the Skin"—viewing human beings through alien eyes—for the simple reason that we are viewing the world through alien eyes. Also because we're in Scotland.
The movie begins in darkness. We get a few credits, then director Jonathan Glazer ("Sexy Beast," "Birth") lets the screen go dark. He holds it, and holds it, and holds it. Gradually we hear noise—traffic? static?—before we get a white dot in the center of the screen. The Earth? The sun? The iris of an eye? A 1960s-era TV turned off? All of the above? Then we get the title.
There's a man on a motorcycle. He picks up the body of a woman in a ravine and deposits her in a white van. Then we're in an all-white, bright room, like in a 1970s sci-fi movie, and one woman, naked, is removing the clothes of the woman from the ravine. Then she puts her clothes on. The first naked woman is Scarlett Johansson, the woman from the ravine is ... a dead prostitute? The previous alien on earth? I assumed the latter since I knew ScarJo was an alien in this thing. But I could be wrong. Or right. Or who knows.
In the novel by Michael Faber on which the movie is based, the alien woman is named Isserley but Glazer doesn't bother to name her. So what should we call her? ScarJo? Alien? Species? Because that's what this is: an arthouse version of "Species" (from what I understand of "Species"): a hot alien lures men to their doom. In the novel, it's for their meat. They're a delicacy. Here? Who knows?
It's a fantastic scene, though. She takes them to a home on the outskirts of town, and then they're in an all-black room, as opposed to the earlier all-white rom, and she's walking ahead, slowly removing her clothes. They follow, doing the same. Then they begin to sink in the water. Are they at a lake? No. And there's something wrong with the water: it's viscous. And she's not sinking. The first man we see—a man without family, a man who won't be missed: that's ScarJo's m.o.—simply disappears beneath the smooth black surface and we don't know what happens to him. We stay with the second man, and watch as he watches ScarJo walk back above him while he remains underwater. Is it underwater? Is it water? He looks around. He's not panicking. Not yet. It's like in a dream that hasn't become a nightmare. Yet. He sees another man, the first man, naked but bloated, and slowly, with the painful, takes-forever-to-get-there movements of a dream, reaches out to the bloated man, even as the bloated man seems to pull back. Is he pulling back? His skin ripples. Then it's like a popped balloon. There's a fury of movement, and when it stops he's just skin floating in the ether.
It's a great, creepy scene, and it's followed, from what I remember, by blood being channeled somewhere? Harvested? Sluiced? Like in a slaughterhouse? But we don't know where or what it means.
There's another great scene of genuine horror, but oddly it's disconnected from ScarJo, or connected only in her imperviousness to its horror.
She's walking along the beach, the cold, rocky coastline of Scotland, where a young man in a wetsuit emerges from the water. She talks to him, flirts with him in that dazed, extraterrestrial way she has. Nearby a couple with an infant is having a ... picnic? Their dog is in the water. Then panic, crisis. Now the woman is in the water—trying to rescue the dog?—and her husband follows her in, and the man in the wetsuit follows him to drag him out. To save him. Except he goes back, while the heroics have exhausted the man in the wetsuit. He lays prone on the beach. So ScarJo walked up to him, looks around, grabs a heavy rock, and bashes his head. Then she drags him away. Later she returns to retrieve a piece of clothing. By this time it's evening, it's growing cold and dark, and the infant, 18 months old, is alone and crying, even as high tide approaches. As the baby keeps crying, ScarJo walks up, picks up the clothing, and walks away. The baby remains. Soon it will be dead. It's the helpless, abandoned.
Do these cries eventually get to ScarJo? Is it that, slowly, ScarJo is beginning to see human beings, her prey, as more than just meat? She encounters all kinds: the self-sacrificing swimmer; a pack of hooligans who threaten her in her van. There's men who help, men who hurt. And men who are hurt.
The last man we see her pick up is disfigured. The actor who plays him, Adam Pearson, suffers from neurofibromatosis, which causes non-cancerous tumors to grow on the body. His tumors grow on his face, and his character is on his way to the grocery store—a lonely, disconnected man—when she pulls up beside him and talks to him. You can see, in his reaction, a disbelief. He's waiting for the moment she'll be horrified by his appearance but she never is. She probably can't tell the difference. It's probably all the same to her. So we get the scene again: in the house, disrobing, leading him on, as he sinks beneath the surface. Then she puts her clothes back on and gets ready to leave the house. Then he's there again. And they both leave the house.
Did the system reject him for his disfigurement? Did she let him go? Because she's beginning to feel for these creature? Us creatures? We watch as he's being pursued by the man on the motorcycle, whom as I think of as the alien version of The Wolf, Harvey Keitel's character in "Pulp Fiction." He's the cleanup crew. And he stuns the disfigured man, deposits him in a car trunk, drives off. Then he goes looking for ScarJo.
What is she doing? She's trying a piece of cake. She looks at it, cuts off a piece of it with her fork, lifts the piece to her mouth and deposits it in there. Then she gags it out.
For most of the movie we know what she's doing; for the rest, we don't. She's lost, I suppose. Like E.T. Has she failed in her mission? Has she gone over to the other side? Our side? She started out predator and now she's prey. Maybe that's all there is. She's walking in the cold drizzle without a coat and a man urges her over to his bus stop. He takes her home. To take advantage? No, he makes her tea. Later, he attempts sex. Later still, she's in the woods being pursued by a logger who wants to rape her. But in tearing her clothes, he tears her skin and sees what she is. So do we. She's all shiny black beneath the ScarJo outfit. Then the logger returns, pours gasoline on her, and lights the match. She runs out of the woods on fire and falls to her knees. We watch the smoke rise. We watch the snow fall. We watch the credits roll.
Incomplete communication
Norman Mailer once said that art depends upon incomplete communication so the audience can respond "with their own creative act of the imagination, that small leap of the faculties which leaves one an increment more exceptional than when one began." But there's incomplete and there's incomplete, and I suppose my incomplete isn't necessarily yours. Some may have thought "The Tree of Life" incomplete. They might have wondered why go from Texas in the 1950s to the birth of time and the creation of life on earth and then the extinction of the dinosaurs, but that made sense to me. The main characters in the movie are questioning why God lets horrible things happen—this boy burned, this son killed—so writer-director Terrence Malick gives perspective. God let entire species go extinct and you're asking Him about a fire? There was enough there for me to complete the communication.
Here, there's not. "Under the Skin" is a moody piece about an alien cultivating humans in a borough of Scotland (for some purpose), who stops doing that (for some reason), and whose story plays out in this inconsequential way.
Other perpsectives are welcome.
Tags: Movie Reviews, Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Glazer, Arthouse Movies
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'Yankees Suck': A Message from Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
With "Amazing Spider-Man 2" on the way, is it time to ask the question that the first "Spider-Man 2" suggests? Namely: Do the Yankees suck?
Here's the guy who finds Spidey's outfit in a garbage can and brings it to J. Jonah Jameson. He winds up selling it for a measly $100:
And here's the guy on the elevated train who helps carry Spidey back, in pieta fashion, after his epic battle with Doc Ock. He's also the one who says, "He's ... just a kid. No older than my son."
He's also the last one to let go of Spidey when Doc Ock returns to finish him off.
So is it better to be a Mets fan than a Yankees fan in the Spider-Man universe? Do the Yankees suck according to Spider-Man? In the series, Yankee fans can always point to this in their favor. But Peter Parker did grow up in Queens, which is where Shea Stadium was and Citi Field is. And he is an underdog.
One wonders how the rest of the Spider-Man universe divides itself up. Norman Osborne probably had a suite at Yankee Stadium. He probably gladhanded with George Steinbrenner. Kingpin? Yankees, totally. Flash Thompson? Yankees again. J.J.J. should be rooting for the Mets (Daily Bugle/Daily News) but the Yankees sell newspapers, so he's probably going there. Robbie's probably a Mets fan, though, if not an old Brooklyn Dodgers fan. Maybe he's still loyal to the Dodgers. Quietly, though, the way he's loyal to Spider-Man.
We'll see how the baseball caps line up, if they line up, in "Amazing Spider-Man 2" in a few weeks.
UPDATE FROM A COMICS FAN: "Spidey is canonically a Mets fan in the comics. Glad to see that the movie got that right!"
Tags: Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Yankees Suck, New York Mets
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Weekend Box Office: 'Captain America' Threepeats; Christian Movies Play Smallball
Last year, the first movie to reign atop the box office charts for three weekends in a row was "Gravity," released in October.
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" has just won its third weekend, and, though it's only mid-April, it's the third movie this year to threepeat—following "Ride Along" (Jan. 17-Feb. 2) and "The LEGO Movie" (Feb. 7-Feb. 23). Not sure what that means.
Well, it means this anyway: Not many people were interested in Johnny Depp's "Transcendence," which got weak reviews and finished a weaker fourth place with $11.1 million. Why weak reviews would matter in a world in which "Transformers" dominates I have no idea. Maybe it's the type of weak review? Critics called "Transformers" loud and stupid and teenage boys went "Alright!" (Shots of Megan Fox bending over a car's engine didn't hurt, either—at least not that way.) Critics call "Transcendence" a "snooze-fest" and teenage boys went, "Yeah ... no. And it stars the Pirate of the Caribbean guy? What is he—like 60?"
"Heaven is for Real" is for real, though. So, apparently, are small-ball Christian movies. I.e., Don't go for the big bucks of "Passion" or the big production values of "Noah"; just make something small and awful and very, very Christian, and gross in the $40-$60 million range.
So far this year, that's been done with "Son of God," patched together from a European TV movie with a superhot Portugese actor (Diogo Mrogado) in the role of Christ ($59.4 million); "God's Not Dead," in which an annoying and bland college freshman proves the title thesis to his atheistic and Mephistopholean philosophy professor ($48.3); and now "Heaven," about a young boy who dies for a moment and then comes back with a certain knowledge of the after-life. It grossed $21 million this weekend for a five-day total of $28 million.
These three films, on Box Office Mojo's Christian movies chart (1980-present), already rank fifth, sixth and tenth. Caveat: a movie like "Noah" isn't considered a Christian movie. Because it mentions the Creator but not God? Because it's Old Testament? Because it isn't vengeful enough? Who knows?
The Breitbart site, no doubt, will trumpet all of this even though, in box office predictions, it overplayed its hand:
Deadline reports that this Easter weekend at the box office we have two openly Christian films perched in the top ten. Meanwhile, Darren Aronofsky's anti-God "Noah" sailed over a cliff, failing to even rank.
Yes and no. Both "Heaven" (No. 3) and "God's Not Dead" (No. 10) made the top 10. But so did "Noah," which shed 745 theaters but still grossed $5 million for ninth place.
So far, "Noah" has grossed $93 million domestic and $290 worldwide. Breitbart dismisses this against its production budget ($125 million according to B.O. Mojo), and calls the film "anti-God"; but imagine if they'd just embraced the movie rather than throwing it to the culture-war wolves. Then they could claim three Christian movies in the top 10. But to do that would require ... what's the word again? ... charity.
A Breitbart site screenshot this weekend.
Tags: Captain America Winter Soldier, Gods Not Dead, Heaven Is For Real, Noah, Breitbart Site
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The Only Goldman Sachs Employee Arrested by the FBI in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Meltdown
Most of Michael Lewis' book, "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt," focuses on Brad Katsuyama, his team, and the revelation of how the game is fixed, the Wall Street, high-frequency trading game, and what Brad and his team try to do to fix it. But there's a chapter in the middle of the book about Sergey Aleynikov, a Russian programmer for Goldman Sachs, that is maybe even more depressing than the knowledge that we're all getting screwed.
Initially I thought Serge would wind up on Brad's team. That's how Lewis handles most of these chapters. He'll introduce someone new, give us their background—talents, smarts, disillusionments—and wind the story around to where they hook up with Brad.
Serge's story is different. He's a sought-after programmer that winds up at Goldman Sachs in the mid-2000s.
What does his story reveal? The kind of awful person who thrives in our current, chest-beating society:
The programmer types were different from the trader types. The trader types were far more alive to the bigger picture, to their context. They knew their worth in the marketplace down to the last penny. They understood the connection between what they did and how much money was made, and they were good at exaggerating the importance of the link. Serge wasn't like that. He was a little-picture person, a narrow problem solver. "I think he didn't know his own value," says the recruiter.
What else? How little companies and corporations look to the long-term; how all the goals are this year, this quarter, this month, this week, today:
After a few months working on the forty-second floor at One New York Plaza, Serge came to the conclusion that the best thing they could do with Goldman's high-frequency trading platform was to scrap it and build a new one from scratch. His bosses weren't interested. "The business model of Goldman Sachs was, if there is an opportunity to make money right away, let's do that," he says. "But if there was something long-term, they weren't that interested."
A few weeks ago at a nonprofit fundraiser, I heard a speech from a grassroots organizer in which he encouraged everyone in the audience to not think of the world as a zero-sum game. You don't have to fall if I rise; we can both rise. I nodded. But then I thought, "Except there are people out there who will think of it as a zero-sum game. And you can't change them. And they will always have the advantage because of it."
Here's an example from Lewis' book. Open source coding is a great, utopian concept. You take, you improve, you return. We all rise. But some people just take advantage of it:
For their patching material he and the other Goldman programmers resorted, every day, to open source software—software developed by collectives of programmers and made freely available on the Internet. The tools and components they used were not specifically designed for financial markets, but they could be adapted to repair Goldman's plumbing. He discovered, to his surprise, that Goldman had a one-way relationship with open source. They took huge amounts of free software off the Web, but they did not return it after he had modified it, even when his modifications were very slight and of general, rather than financial, use. "Once I took some open source components, repackaged them to come up with a component that was not even used at Goldman Sachs," he says. "It was basically a way to make two computers look like one, so if one went down the other could jump in and perform the task." He'd created a neat way for one computer to behave as the stand-in for another. He described the pleasure of his innovation this way: "It created something out of chaos. When you create something out of chaos, essentially, you reduce the entropy in the world." He went to his boss, a fellow named Adam Schlesinger, and asked if he could release it back into open source, as was his inclination. "He said it was now Goldman's property," recalls Serge. "He was quite tense."
Ther's a horror in this chapter. Serge gets tired of working at Goldman Sachs, of repairing old code rather than starting from scratch. So when he has the chance to start anew, with another compamy, building the code for their high-frequency trading from the ground up, he takes it. The pay is less but he still takes it. He also emails to himself some of the open source coding he improved upon at Goldman Sachs. This code would be useless in his new job, which was using a completely different programming language, but he wanted it anyway. Just in case.
You see what's coming, don't you? Just before he leaves he's arrested by the FBI for stealing Goldman Sachs' proprietary information. He's charged and put on trial. And convicted. And sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
All of this is bad enough. But Lewis saves the coup de grace, the final outrage, for near the end of the chapter:
Thus the only Goldman Sachs employee arrested by the FBI in the aftermath of a financial crisis Goldman had done so much to fuel was the employee Goldman asked the FBI to arrest.
But at least there's an appeals process, and, a year later, on the day his lawyer argues before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Serge is released. Only to be—believe it or not—re-arrested for the same crime. Just different code. So no double jeopardy. But that arrest didn't stand long.
I don't know if this story can take more irony but here it is. By the end of the book? As Brad and his team work to create a more equitable Wall Street? Goldman Sachs is one of the good guys.
More bull.
Tags: Michael Lewis, Flash Boys, Wall Street
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Quote of the Day
"Ranching is hard work. Drought and market swings make it a tough go in many years. That's all the more reason to praise the 18,000 or so ranchers who pay their grazing fees on time and don't go whining to Fox or summoning a herd of armed thugs when they renege on their contract. You can understand why the Nevada Cattlemen's Association wants no part of Bundy.
"These kinds of showdowns are rare because most ranchers play by the rules, and quietly go about their business. They are heroes, in one sense, preserving a way of life that has an honorable place in American history. The good ones would never wave a gun in the face of a public servant, and likely never draw a camera from Fox."
-- Timothy Egan, "Deadbeat on the Range," The New York Times, April 18, 2014, about the recent Bundy ranch confrontation that has brought out the worst in the reactionary right.
Tags: FOX-News, Timothy Egan
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God's Not Dead? Goody
The shot below is one of the IMDb.com pics of one of the stars of the godawful film "God's Not Dead":
Apparently I wasn't the only one to have problems with the movie. The message boards at IMDb.com are full of complaints from Christians. "It's bad and I'm sorry," reads one. Yet the Breitbarts of the world still push the film for political reasons. Shame. $42.8 million and counting. Although "Heaven Is For Real," which opened yesterday, and also looks godawful, will probably cut into that. Well, you cannot serve both God and money. Someone said that once.
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Movie Review: Finding Vivian Maier (2014)
"Finding Vivian Maier" is the "Searching for Sugar Man" of photography. It's about the artist who is discovered after the career or the life. It's about resurrection and redemption: finally coming into the light after years in the neglected dark.
Both movies are also mysteries.
The mystery of "Sugarman" is this: How did the singer/songwriter Rodriguez die in the early 1970s and why was he huge in South Africa and unknown in his native U.S.? The answers to these questions are intriguing. The mystery of "Vivian Maier" is this: Who was Vivian Maier, and why was she content to take tens of thousands of beautiful photographs and never show them to anyone?
The answers to these questions are less than satisfying.
Not a nice person
You know whose name I was surprised I didn't hear during "Finding Vivian Maier"? Franz Kafka's.
Kafka, private and reclusive, published only a few things in his lifetime but had written much, much more. On his deathbed, he instructed his friend Max Brod to burn the rest. Brod didn't. He published. The rest is literary history.
Vivian Maier, private and reclusive, was born in 1926 and began work as a nanny in the 1950s because it allowed her the freedom to pursue her art: photography. She took pictures all the time but showed them to no one. Sometimes she didn't even bother to get the film developed. After she died in poverty in 2009, some of her things were bought at an auction by real estate agent John Maloof, who saw value in it. He developed some of her photos and posted them to flickr. They took off. The rest is photography history.
Here's another connection: Kafka once wrote, "A writer is not a nice person."
That was one of the questions we batted about after the movie: Can you be a nice person and a great artist? Or even a crappy artist? Doesn't art demand both empathy (to understand someone else's life) and its lack (to use it for your art)? For the street photographer, how close to these strangers can I get? How much of them can I steal without their knowledge or permission? There's a scene in the early 1960s in Highland Park, Ill., where one of the neighborhood kids is hit by a car. Everyone rushes around trying to help. Vivian? She's taking pictures with her Rolleiflex.
The Rolleiflex helps in this regard. She can set the shot and take the picture without appearing to take the picture. She can look people in the eye as she steals from them.
For what it's worth, I love her work. I love black-and-white street photography from bygone eras anyway and hers seems of a high standard. She's got a good eye and a quick finger. She captures moments and lives. We see a lot of the photographs. But the doc, directed by both Maloof and Charlie Siskel ("Tosh.0," producer on "Bowling for Columbine"), is mostly about Maloof's search for her.
Initially, he knows nothing. He just has trunks of negatives and prints and undeveloped film and 16mm movies. He buys more of her things and lays them out before the camera like in a Wes Anderson movie: campaign buttons, for example. She was a pack rat. Later we learn she was a hoarder. And worse.
He discovers she was a nanny and find her former charges, and their friends, and the parents of their friends, who may have been her friend.
They describe her similarly: tall, domineering, to-the-point, political. She wore odd, heavy clothes and hats—like she was living in the 1920s rather than the 1960s—and walked with long strides and stiff arms. She had an odd French accent. There's some debate about whether it was real or not. One man says yes; a linguist says no. Even we debated it afterwards. I assumed it was fake since she was born in New York, but my friends said no, it was real, since she lived half of her childhood in France with her French mother. We visit France, her mother's village, Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur in the French Alps, and meet people there, and some part of the mystery is solved. A letter she wrote to a French developer about how she wanted him to print her work. She had high standards and wanted those standards met. This is a great, necessary revelation for Maloof, since he's a nice person and is plagued by the doubt that Vivian wouldn't have wanted her work exhibited the way he was doing. But here was proof. He could continue.
That's hardly a revelation for us, though. We're watching the doc, so we know Maloof continued with it, so getting a kind of posthumous permission isn't news. Besides: permission? Did Vivian get the permission to take half the photos she took?
No, greater revelations comes in the final third, while interviewing her charges from 1968 to 1974. Apparently she became worse, and cruel. She force-fed one girl and hit her. She swung her around, then let her go. She brought her to the stockyards to watch animals being slaughtered. Somehow she kept her job for six years.
We lose the thread of her story in the '70s and don't pick it up again until the late '90s. By then she's homeless, and alone, and lonely. Some former charges—whom she didn't abuse, apparently—pony up for a small apartment, where she lives until she dies in 2009. A few years later she's an internationally acclaimed street photographer with exhibitions all over the world. Luck? Happenstance? Was she the one preventing her own success? Once she was out of the way, it came rather quickly.
Some day my Maloof will come
Question: do we get the wrong gerund in the title? Given the power, I would switch it with "Sugar Man"'s, since they actually find him. They interview him. We get a sense of who he is and who he was and why he did what he did. But Vivian? Do we find her? Not really. Too much of her remains unknown and unknowable. We're left with questions. Why would she print nothing? Why would she show no one? Buddy Glass has a line in "Seymour: An Introduction," "I always want to publish," and that's me, so I don't get the opposite urge. But I admire it. Sort of.
I admire it for this reason. Besides being redemption songs, "Searching for Sugar Man" and "Finding Vivian Maier" are both wish-fulfillment fantasies for every would-be artist out there toiling in obscurity. It's the "some day" wish. Some day they'll know. Some day they'll see. Some day my Maloof will come and the world will open its arms wide and take me in. And it's an awful, awful wish.
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